YEN Brazil

Hello, my name is Jenna Shervill. I am working with the Youth Employment Network of the UN Secretary General. As a YEN Associate, I am working to help faciitate the new Youth Employment initiatives in Brazil. I will be posting blogs on youth employment issues in the country, as well as on the activities that I am involved in here.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Release of YEN Newsletter

The February 2008 edition of the YEN Newsletter is now available on the YEN website!

The work of the YEN/CIDA Associates were featured in this edition. Here is my blurb:

Brazil YEN Associate, Ms. Jenna-Dawn Shervill, is working within ILO Brazil to support the ILO’s work on youth employment.She has participated in the drafting of ajoint UN Country Team (UNCT) concept note on youth, employment andmigration in Brazil for submission to the UNDP coordinated SpanishMillennium Development Goals Fund (MDG-F).

Jenna lent support to the organisation of ILO "Decent Work and Youth"workshop which brought together key players at the international, state,and grassroots levels, to discuss and develop strategies to improve youth employment opportunities in Brazil. She also assisted the ILO in the promotion and dissemination of the recent ILO report on "Decent Work and Youth" in Latin America.

She has promoted an ongoing open dialogue on the definition of "decentwork" for youth in Brazil, assisting the ILO by scheduling meetings withkey players at the state and NGO levels in preparation for the workshoprelated to this field. She also worked on ILO-Brazil’s first South-South Cooperation Initiative against Child Labour.

Jenna provided comments and edits on the Spanish version of the YCG’s Youth Guide. She is currently supporting the implementation of the ILOs "Project to Promote Jobs for Youths in Latin America" (PREJAL) in Brazil

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